Bavarian People's Party

The Bavarian People's Party (BVP) was a Christian democratic political party in the German state of Bavaria that was active from 1918 to 1933. The BVP was founded as the Bavarian branch of the Center Party of Germany, but it later split from the Center Party to pursue a more conservative, more Bavarian course. The party displayed monarchist leanings and supported autonomy for Bavaria, and there was a period of near separatism during the early 1920s, during which Gustav von Kahr was unwilling to abide by Berlin's rulings before the Nazi Party's failed 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. During the Weimar Republic, the BVP was consistently the most popular party in Bavaria. The party dissolved in 1933 after Adolf Hitler's takeover in Germany, and both the Bavaria Party and the Christian Social Union in Bavaria claim to be successors to the BVP.